On 3/2/06, Steven Ericsson Zenith steven@semeiosis.org wrote:
Philip is correct. The only way to escape the GDFL is to rewrite the entire encyclopedia under a different license - or get every single contributor to agree to reassign the content. Good luck with that.
You could always mix the two. Relicense some parts and rewrite the rest. Of course, figuring out which parts are relicensed and which aren't is almost as hard as just rewriting the thing.
The first approach actually seems viable to me - see http://www.panopedia.org :-)
With respect, Steven
The first approach is of course viable. At the very worst it could be done with the same amount of time it took to create the current version. But in practice it'd be easier. Plus, you could fact check and reference while you're at it.
In the long term, on the order of a decade or so, this is probably what's going to wind up happening anyway.
Anthony